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MPS response to the GMC’s consultation on the UK List of Registered Medical Practitioners development

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MPS used the consultation to make the point that the GMC’s ambition should be for information held on the register to be fully up-to-date, accurate, and dependable. This is the register’s core purpose and current function, and should remain so.

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MPS responds to the CQC’s consultation on its regulation and inspection regime for independent doctor services

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MPS has responded to the CQC’s consultation on how it inspects and regulates independent doctor services. While agreeing in principle to some elements of the CQC’s proposals, MPS does have significant concerns about the risks involved with adopting a one-size fits all approach to the regulation of all independent services.

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MPS responds to proposals by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the GMC for a new ‘generic professional capabilities framework’

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The generic professional capabilities dealt with in the ten domains of this framework are all important. In our response, MPS particularly noted the reference to ‘emotional resilience’ in Domain 1 of the proposed framework. Emotional resilience is a valuable attribute for any doctor.

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MPS responds to the GMC’s consultation on changes to the information it publishes about a doctors fitness to practise

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MPS has responded to the GMC’s proposals to change the information published and disclosed about a doctor’s fitness to practise. While MPS is supportive of a number of the proposed changes, we are concerned that the balance between the public interest and the individual interest of the doctor, is not being fully achieved.

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MPS has responded to the GMC’s proposals to reform the fitness to practice investigation and adjudication processes. We are concerned about some of the proposed changes, and these are outlined in the response.

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MPS's response to the consultation on introducing mandatory reporting for female genital mutilation

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MPS recognises that the policy decision has been made to introduce mandatory reporting for female genital mutilation (FGM). For this reason we will not comment on the policy decision itself. Having said that, MPS is of the view that the current General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines for reporting FGM are, in general, clear and appropriate.

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MPS’s response to the consultation on ‘Proposals to Introduce a Statutory Duty of Candour for Health and Social Care Services’

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MPS fully supports a culture of openness in the NHS – a need for which was notably raised in the Francis Inquiry Report. We have long standing concerns that legal duties, such as a statutory duty of candour being proposed by the Scottish Government, fail to provide the impetus necessary for behavioural change.

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MPS responds to the GMC and PSA consultation on S60 orders 2014

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MPS welcomes the opportunity to comment on these proposed changes to the GMC’s powers and procedures. We agree with the objective of clarifying the powers and responsibilities of the GMC and MPTS and we have made some detailed comments on the specific proposals below.

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